Department of French & Italian
Student-Faculty Forum Series presents

  Edoardo Lèbano
Garibaldi and Lincoln: A Missed Opportunity
         

 

Friday
April 15, 2005
2:30-4:00 pm
Ballantine Hall 149

   
Giuseppe Garibaldi
 Abraham Lincoln
         
 

INDIANA UNIVERSITY
BLOOMINGTON


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     This talk will deal with a little, if not unknown, page in Italian-American history. It concerns the offer of a command of an American army made by President Abraham Lincoln to Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1861. In this presentation, Professor Lèbano will point out the political and economic relationships existing between the United States and Italy prior to the US Civil War; the reasons for the American offer to Garibaldi; the reactions that it caused in Italy, the USA and elsewhere; Garibaldi's personal feelings for America, a land of which he professed to be "an adoptive son;" as well as the Italian patriot's great support for the Union cause.

Edoardo Lèbano is Emeritus Professor of Italian in the Department of French & Italian. The lecture will be given in English, to be followed by discussion and refreshments.